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Problem: the photo is from a totally different event. Politifact, a nonpartisan journalistic fact-checking organization, checked in on Monday with Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the DC Fire and Emergency Department. Piringer “unofficially” estimated that between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up. He added that the photo circulating conservative sites was almost certainly not from this year. Here’s Catharine Richert of Politifact:
“It was an impressive crowd,” Piringer said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd “only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street,” he said. Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets. There’s another big problem with the photograph: it doesn’t include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004… That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn’t show the “tea party” crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.
This misinformation does not surprise me. They want people to think, "WOW, so many people upset at the president and its policies, lets see what this is all about".
Seeing from the news and clips in the internet, there were many uninformed, misinformed, and unintelligent narrow minded people in that rally. Obviously not all of them; but a large number that were interviewed. If what I saw is an indication of how even 50% of the american population think, we are in BIG TROUBLE!!!!!!
This photo is real. Notice the Indian Museum left of center. Huge crowd.
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